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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Thursday, 28 August 2008

warm in tweed

From tomorrow, there are just 3 days of winter left. Technically, that is. I am looking forward to Spring, but I am still enjoying the last of the coldest weather. Today I wrapped up in soft tweed, a warm cardigan and thick tights, balanced with high, thin black heels.

The dress is actually an old tweed skirt worn higher up. It really is super soft, and felt luxuriously warm. I also wore my hair in its actual style – I rarely do these days – and I am happy to see that it has already grown noticeably longer – and softer – since I last did so. Worn with black eyeliner, and a little olive green liner on the lower lid, I actually quite liked it like this. I am still growing it long again, though.

This morning I had a bit of a shop, and got a few things: a bag, a pair of cream crochet tights (yay! They're from the '60s, in their original packet, and still in good nic) and the pink knitted beret. I will show these soon, but would like to have a few more things to show with them – which, with the way I am feeling these days, will hopefully be within a week. I am hoping to go on my first DFO trip this weekend, and I have some things on my wish list that I really want/need... I've certainly waited long enough! I am rather looking forward to it.

Oh your hair really looks insanely gorgeous like that, so soft and pixie like. And that outfit! You really amaze me every time you post, because I don't know how you do it but your outfits just get better and better--you really are the queen when it comes to winter fashion. I want every piece!!Ciao ciao dear,Marisa